Researching Internet For these 10 last years, Internet has become part of our everyday life. What was in the beginning a tool rather used by the institutions of search for came a medium without precedent for the regular commercial and social practice. With a number of Web pages exceeding 12 billion now, it is thus extremely difficult to find information without using the search engines.
The search engines appeared almost immediately after the birth of the WWW. The first pilot search engine, called archie, was created at the University of Montreal in 1990 and was used for research of the files located in spaces ftp. The first true search engine was created for crawler and to index the textual files on the Web, the Wanderer World Wide Web or Wandex (the Vagrant of the Web), and was launched in 1993.
It functioned on the same principles as the current search engines. But it was only at the end of the Nineties that the search engines became the major tool of research of the Web. Before that, WHOIS databases like Yahoo! or BestOfTheWeb were used to find Web pages. And that did not take a long time so that the Net surfers recognize the utility of research on Internet,...